Accessible Format Officer

Posted: 10/09/2025

Closing Date: 09/10/2025

Job Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Macquarie

Job Category: Other

**Our Purpose and Ambition**

NextSense is a not-for-profit organisation supporting people with vision or hearing loss across Australia. We work with children, adults, and their families, providing a holistic approach to hearing services for newborns through to people over 90 years old, and helping children who are blind or have low vision to develop the right skills, mobility, and independence to confidently explore their world.

NextSense has been breaking boundaries since 1860, and we’ve been expanding our services ever since. Today, we deliver world-class education (both to children with sensory loss and to professionals in the field), cochlear implants, allied health services, therapy, research, and clinical services to children and adults. We’re a registered NDIS provider, working with our clients to achieve their own goals and potential.

We’re committed to research and innovation; harnessing the latest technologies and new ways of thinking and educating the next generation to lead the way in hearing and vision services.

Our new world-leading centre for innovation on-site at Macquarie University NSW represents a new era for hearing and vision loss. This nationally significant social infrastructure project was undertaken to nurture, trial and share new ideas and form new partnerships that will drive better outcomes for people who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind or have low vision.

**The Role**

NextSense has an exciting opportunity for an **Accessible Format Officer**to join our team based on campus, in a brand new building, at **Macquarie University**. We have 2 roles available and we're offering these roles on a** permanent full-time** basis**.**

Role Purpose:

- To support NextSense clients in accessing information by the provision of accessible large print or braille material, created using format-relevant best practise accessibility guidelines.
- To transcribe curriculum and assessment material for students on the NextSense School Support Service, NextSense Blind School and NextSense Blind and Low Vision Preschool.
- To aid staff delivering vision services by creating appropriate braille, large print books and resources in accessible electronic formats.
- To create learning resources to aid literacy and concept development for children who are blind or have low vision
- To embrace a culture of quality and innovation that enhances the delivery of services at NextSense through insightful design and implementation of accessibility guidelines.
- To share knowledge and expertise within the wider community both nationally and internationally, by participating in workshops and contributing to guidelines to promote best practise, showcasing the organisation as a centre of excellence.

**What we can offer you**
- Competitive remuneration
- 100% salary packaging allowing you to increase your take home pay
- Extensive personal/carer’s leave
- 2 weeks paid leave over Christmas in addition to 4 weeks annual leave
- Paid parental leave of 14 weeks for primary carers and 6 weeks for secondary carers
- Access to industry leading education and professional development
- Collaborative work environment
- Wellbeing program including Employee Assistance Program

**Desired Skills and Experience**:
**About you**

To be successful in this role you'll need to demonstrate you meet the following selection criteria.

Essential:

- Proficient knowledge of Microsoft Office suite of programs
- Excellent written and verbal communication, including the capacity to handle sensitive matters with tact and diplomacy
- Excellent organisational skills
- Desired knowledge of:

- Unified English Braille or willingness to complete the UEB online course.
- OCR software
- Duxbury Systems, Adobe Creative Suite especially Indesign, Photoshop and Illustrator.
- Accommodations required for blindness and low vision
- Relevant qualifications in Braille proficiency; or
- Equivalent combination of experience and/or training
- You are obliged to become familiar with, and comply with child protection policies and legislation, as amended from time to time
- a verified NSW Working With Children Check and criminal record check

To download the Position Description, please click on the following link: Accessible Format Officer